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Women who quit smoking before 30 can add 10 years to their life

From the UK - Women who quit smoking around age 30 can drastically reduce their excess risk of premature death, according to recent results from the Million Women Study published in the Lancet. The study was comprised of 1.3 million women--recruited for participation between 1996 and 2001 and followed up for an average of 12 years. 66,000 participants died during the study period. Results showed that women who were smokers 3 years into the study period had nearly 3x increased risk of dying over the following 9 years, with risk of death increasing with the amount of cigarettes smoked. Researchers also found that women who successfully quit smoking prior to 30 years of age avoided 97% of their excess death risk, while serious health risks remained for decades among women who smoked until 40. Excess health risks were raised 10x for women who smoked after age 40. Professor Sir Richard Peto, co-author of the study, had this to say: ""If women smoke like men, they die like men -- but, whether they are men or women, smokers who stop before reaching middle age will on average gain about an extra ten years of life."